Beginning in January, people stopping by the City-County Building might have noticed some offices shifting locations and teams of construction workers navigating the building. For the past six months there has been an ongoing project to remodel parts of the building to accommodate more judges and provide more courtroom space after a state mandate increased the number of district court judges in various parts of Kansas. Court Administrator Todd Heitschmidt said the process for getting new judges has been a long time coming, but the change was abrupt. “We’ve always been asking for more judges, and just never thought we’d get them,” Heitschmidt said. “Then we got three at once.”
Source: Salina Journal
